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We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Born
Hopeless
Living
Originals
Lost
Original
Distracting
Life
Notion
Incorrect
Genius
Swallowed
Days
Notions
Within
Assumed
Rather
Divorced

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